It never really did feel like Christmas this year. At least not until I got home to Arizona and was around the family. And not even until that morning when the little girls were opening presents and shouting exclamations of "Sweetness!" and "Nice, nice." Seeing them excited made me excited. My favorite present was a pair of Hoven sunglasses I got from Jamas. They're freaking rad and I love them. Plus they won't break after two wears. It's been kind of funny updating all the older siblings on the social/love life (well more of lack thereof). Next time we're all together I'm just going to sit down all the older sisters and tell them my stories all at once so I won't be repeating it 4 times.
We left the day after Christmas for Hurricane and then the next day to the SUU lodge up in Cedar City. We spent 3 1/2 days up there playing in the snow and just lounging around (lots of time spent reading new books from Santa). Monday night we went skiing. It was my second time ever going and I had tons of fun. My body is definitely not use to it (or any form of exercise aside from walking) so I've been a bit tender all over. We had everyone at the cabin except Jamas, Erin, Auden, Marek and Brett who's serving his mission in Japan. I was happy to finally have Colton back and I managed to get away without being thrown in the snow. Saturday night him, Rachie, Tyson and I drove down to Cedar City and saw Bedtime Stories with Adam Sandler. It was super funny and I totally want to go see it again. We laughed a lot and maybe out loud too much, but I didn't care too much and the other audience members never said anything. We only had one accident at the cabin this year: Maren was going down a steep run on the sled, fell off and all of her weight landed on her arm. She didn't completely snap it in two, it was just fractured and bent. Don't worry I have pictures :) (but they'll have to come later). Don't stress though, we have really only ever had two accidents in the 7 years we've been going (this one and my Aunt Jilyn broke her tailbone one year. That's why we don't do trains on the tubes anymore).
We're now back at Grandma's in Hurricane being bums. Fed the cows last night, got IN 'N OUT for lunch and have a Wii tennis tournament planned to bring in the New Year with. No New Year's Eve kisses this year :( But at least I won't be in bed when '09 hits like I was last year. That's something to be grateful for. I'll upload pictures tomorrow, we've got a slow internet connection here so it takes much too long than I'm willing to wait for to upload photos.
School starts back up on Monday and I'm pretty excited to get back up to Provo although I'm going to miss AZ's warmer weather. At least I won't be sleeping on a couch anymore. I've got 2 new roommates and a nannying job to look forward to. Last thing I swear: In the months of August-December I traveled roughly 7,360 miles. Most of that was in between home and school, but dang! That's a lot of miles!!!
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